Why 1.2 item costumization is broken

When I transferred a Columi armoring over, at first it worked just fine. It didn't show on the piece I transferred to, but when I wore it, it counted towards the set. I was definitely still getting the 4-piece set bonus of my set, even though I had 3 pieces plus a newly slotted 4th piece that had an armoring from that set.
Then I logged out.
When I logged in again, it no longer counted. Was this because I logged, or because of something they did in that emergency patch? Who knows.

Frankly, I don't really care any more, because I unsubbed a month ago and have been playing a few hours a week (just to stay social with my guildies) waiting for my subscription to run out. This is just yet another thing that the devs promised us and then didn't deliver. And for all the apologists, they DID promise us that set bonuses would transfer; there was even a direct question about that in a Q&A. There were no qualifiers on it, no "only on the new sets", it was a flat "yes, you can do that" answer.

So, either they lied to us back then, or they've implemented a completely broken mechanism despite it being on the Test Server for several weeks. Neither of those options is very flattering to them.

Can you pull the armor mods out of purple items? I cannot log on due to having to reinstall the game due to the patch not working right and the repair of the install hanging... On the bright side I'm getting some much needed sewing done.

Yeah you can pull all mods out from purple gear and place it in some orange gear. However, the set bonus doesn't follow.

ACTUALLY......

"We have also added new content for both the leveling and end game:
•Players with the appropriate professions are now able to reverse engineer random loot items and acquire materials from them - including Operations materials from end game items.
•Reverse engineering and research is now available for tier 2 end game items (and will automatically happen if the player wins a 'disassemble' loot in a group).
•Mods from tier 2 end game items may now be extracted and researched. However, Armorings that provide a set bonus can only be extracted. They do not yield research schematics.
•Modifiable weapons and armor can now be reverse engineered and researched into empty, custom (orange) shells with the same name and appearance, adding a wide variety of new outfits to the game.

Go to past forums and review the one about crew skills with update 1.2.
Now PLEASE tell me why someone would interpret that as a set bonus will not transfer with an armoring mod...
AND the last quote there, clearly, insinuates almost all gear can be RE'd into a schematic to create a WIDE variety of new outfits.......clearly this did not happen. So, NO, it's not anyone's fault for lack of paying attention to be under the assumption this patch was going to drastically change the way crafting would work.
(Also, note the remark about RE'ing current tier 2 into a schematic.....this didn't happen either)

You are reading it wrong. Tier 2 means the current NEW end game gear. To make it more clear, it means you can now RE these items to receive crafting materials. Armorings with a set bonus can only be extracted, not RE'd to learn a pattern that you can craft later on. All modifiable weapons now have a chance to be RE'd to learn an orange shell, but with an augment slot, there's no set bonus's on weapons to begin with.

Understand it now? People should read more clearly before posting something and looking silly.

Why is it even an issue? Set bonus is a pretty minor thing (especially PvE set bonuses) and you don't even need them to be effective in Operations. And if you don't plan doing them, what's the problem?

Heck, they're not even that important for PvP, you can do just fine without the set bonuses.

nope, lying requires there to be malicious intent. georg and stephen both popped up pretty quick to fix there . honestly the mistake itself is even pretty understandable since they are working on builds much further ahead of what we are playing. besides that i get the impression that they are very often in charge of teams instead of working on it these first hand. seeing status updates and looking at the project is often very different than being hands on and knowing all of the intricacies.

georg in particular is pretty bad about keeping all of the different builds seperate. whether that means he should simply stop giving us information, or make sure to doublecheck everything before posting is pretty arguable.

because their is nothing in that from before new gear? t2 is all campaign gear. tionese/columi/rakata is all tier 1.

Indeed, as has been pointed out all your quotes specify tier 2 end-game items. Tier 2 equipment is new to the game as part of the 1.2 update; the quotes you provide do not include equipment sets that existed in the game prior to Thursday's patch.

this guy posts dsome sense, and he is promptly ignored.

see people? you just WANT to argue

So, obviously, I misinterpreted the part about the tier 2 gear being the new campaign gear, my bad. However, the final quote about all modifiable weapons AND armor being able to be RE'd into a schematic still bothers me. It makes it sound like all pre-1.2 gear would be able to be researched into a schematic. That part alone would've made such a drastic impact on crafting skills and at that point no one *should* have anything to complain about as far as gear aesthetics. Everyone could look exactly how they wanted too.